Post-fire development of faunal habitat depends on plant regeneration traits

14 We gratefully acknowledge funding and support for this project from the Holsworth Wildlife 15 Research Endowment; Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria); 16 and La Trobe University Department of Environment, Ecology and Evolution. We thank the 17 following people who contributed to data collection and collation in the mallee: Sarah 18 Avitabile, Lauren Brown, Kate Callister, Mike Clarke, Angie Haslem, Greg Holland, Sally 19 Kenny, Dale Nimmo, Lisa Spence-Bailey, Rick Taylor and Simon Watson. All authors 20 contributed critically to the drafts and gave final approval for publication. The authors have 21 no conflicts of interest to declare. Field work was conducted under Scientific Permit no. 22 100008333 (DELWP, Vic) We thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive feedback 23 that improved the final version.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Austral ecology (Print)

• Publication date

  2020-06-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/aec.12896
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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